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= Basics =
;[[Using Graphics|Using graphics]]: insert image, apply transformations, and advanced stuff.
= Build your graphics =
; [[MetaPost]], : the graphical programming language; [[MetaFun - MetaPost in ConTeXt]], : ConTeXt graphical programming language, extension of MetaPost.
; [[Sharing graphics]]: Export MetaPost drawings as PDF, import MetaPost drawings into MS Office, LibreOffice, etc.
; [https://akela.mendelu.cz/~thala/statcharts/ The New (2020) graph module]: with its dedicated [https://akela.mendelu.cz/~thala/statcharts/statistical-charts.pdf manual "Drawing Statistical Charts"] and a [https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2020/talks/2020-09-11-tamara-and-adriana-statistical-charts/AK-TK_charts.pdf short presentation].; [[MPgraph|The grap basic graph module]]: Data plotting module, and some alternatives: [[TikZ]] (2016), [[Gnuplot]] (2012), [[Pgfplot]] (2009).
; [[Flow Charts]]
; [[Graphical text manipulation|Scale, mirror, rotate, clipScaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping]]: Old Content (2010)
; [[Gantt charts]]
= Layers and stacks =
; [[Layers]]: ConTeXt's mechanism for absolute positioning and advanced techniques like background / foreground, switch on / off.; [[Overlays]]: ConTeXt's mechanism to stack local snippets. An alternative is [[Collectors]] (Old Content).; [[Logos]]: ConTeXt 's mechanism to mage appear logos (picture or text elements) on every page
; [[Infinite Paper]]
* [[Including pages from PDF documents]]
* [[Image Database|Image database]] with XML
* [[Image Placement|Image size for thei their placement]]: if you’re using ConTeXt for complex layout tasks, you may need to calculate with image sizes. Often it makes sense to use Lua functions.
* [[Drop_shadows|Code to play with for Drop shadows]]
* [[Example photo page layout]] (Old Content)
* [[Animation]], page mainly dealing with JavaScript animations.* [[Speech bubble]]* [[Even-odd rule in Metafun]]* [[variable color]], example of Metapost / Metafun syntax with arrays of colors, strings, paths, pens and other variables.* [[Pascal's Triangle]]* [[textext positioning]]
[[Category:Graphics]]
